99: The Ghost of Destiny

Xu Yan raised his hand and touched the speck of light flying towards him.

The next moment, information about the leader of the Green-robed Ghost's organization, a Ghostly being named Fate-Playing Ghost, along with its life story, unfolded directly before Xu Yan.

After a quick scan, Xu Yan's mouth twitched slightly, and he silently mourned for the Green-robed Ghost and its companions for a moment in his heart.

The Fate-Playing Ghost is the only existence among Ghostly beings and all living creatures in the entire secret realm that possesses the attribute of fate.

It was also a Ghostly being born from obsession and resentment after a human's death. The only difference was that, compared to the vast majority who came from ordinary people at the bottom, this Fate-Playing Ghost was born into a top-tier aristocratic family.

Moreover, unlike those in novels who come from great aristocratic families yet still look out for those at the bottom, this Fate-Playing Ghost, even in life, possessed a genuine aristocratic mindset, meaning it did not regard ordinary people at the bottom of the human circle or Ghostly beings as actual people.

Just by reading this far, Xu Yan knew that the Green-robed Ghost's organization was likely doomed. Their boss was actually born into an opposing force, and had grown up receiving the enemy's education from a young age. This made the purpose behind establishing such an organization quite interesting.

The subsequent information confirmed Xu Yan's conjecture.

Although the human side had the extraordinary profession of Ghost Controllers, this profession was not for everyone; it had a high threshold. This Fate-Playing Ghost, in its lifetime, was a member of a prominent aristocratic family who lacked the aptitude to become a Ghost Controller.

Unable to become a Ghost Controller, it couldn't rise to the family's upper echelons. This caused the person to develop a somewhat twisted psychology.

Without the Innate Talent to become a Ghost Controller, he ultimately chose to accept the duty of creating various Ghostly beings for the family, venting his resentment towards Ghost Controllers on the ordinary people within the human circle.

And he indeed possessed extremely high Innate Talent in this area. Various novel 'scripts' were born in his hands, inflicting even heavier physical and mental blows upon those ordinary people.

During his tenure, the Ghostly beings he created had a higher probability of being rare types and were more powerful.

Although he lacked the Innate Talent to become a Ghost Controller, because he possessed this particular skill, Ghost Controllers would show him a certain degree of courtesy when dealing with him, granting him a degree of influence within the family.

It was precisely for this bit of power that his 'scripts' became increasingly twisted, inflicting even more unbearable physical and mental torment on ordinary people. He also developed a hobby: he enjoyed watching the endings of his 'scripts' up close, listening to the desperate wails of those people before their deaths.

Then, he met his downfall due to this hobby. Rather dramatically, the person who killed him, the method of his death, and the location where he was killed were exactly the same as those of the female protagonist in one of his 'scripts'.

His obsession with power and 'scripts' ultimately led him to become a Ghostly being after his death.

Because of this, it became the most special existence among Ghostly beings, the Fate-Playing Ghost.

And the hobby it had developed earlier — enjoying watching the endings of its 'scripts' alone — while killing it, also saved it.

Otherwise, the Ghost Controllers in its family would not have cared whether the Ghostly beings they controlled were their own family members or ordinary citizens.

After becoming a Ghostly being, it first hid for a while, growing stronger by relying on the unique nature of the faint power of fate derived from its obsession with 'scripts'.

It was also due to this special ability that it could transfer the pain and torment it suffered after becoming a Ghostly being to other people or Ghostly beings, allowing it to avoid suffering while maintaining its sanity.

And after gaining a certain level of strength, its obsession with power resurfaced. What's more absurd is that this obsession had a limited scope, only effective for its family from when it was alive; other things brought it no satisfaction.

However, its family could never accept a Ghostly being becoming a power-holder in the family. Due to the family's profound heritage, it, a ghost, couldn't directly seize power through force.

This situation continued until it encountered another powerful Ghostly being. This being originated from the human circle, became a Ghostly being after suffering immensely in life, and subsequently endured extreme pain at the hands of Ghost Controllers. After gaining considerable strength, it seized an opportunity to assassinate its master and defect.

The Fate-Playing Ghost initially wanted to recruit it, but the other party was completely consumed by thoughts of revenge, and no amount of persuasion worked.

A flash of inspiration struck it, and it thought of using the reason of 'destroying the world, annihilating all living beings, avenging them, and bringing them liberation' to unite all Ghostly beings who harbored resentment towards humans.

Coupled with the Fate-Playing Ghost's special ability to transfer pain and torment, and its act of rescuing Ghostly beings controlled by Ghost Controllers, it actually managed to create a powerful organization with the goal of world destruction.

However, what it didn't expect was that the reason it had initially spouted to recruit powerful Ghostly beings eventually came true.

After a certain point in time, all living beings who reached a certain level of strength received a message: this world was about to perish.

While the Ghostly beings in the organization were ecstatic and became even more convinced by it, the Fate-Playing Ghost itself felt no joy.

Compared to those Ghostly beings who had suffered immensely and were filled with resentment towards humans, the Fate-Playing Ghost, who had lived a smooth life and whose greatest torment was merely the moment of death, did not want to die. It wanted to maintain its current state and status.

Then, an interesting point emerged: while other Ghostly beings in the organization were causing various destructions, attempting to accelerate the world's demise, the Fate-Playing Ghost, as their leader, began to sabotage those destructive Ghostly beings. Simultaneously, it frantically searched for ways to save the world, all while acting cautiously and secretly, fearing that its true intentions would be discovered by the other Ghostly beings.

An organization established with the goal of world destruction, yet its leader was searching for ways to save the world—it was indeed full of dramatic irony.

Then, there was the appearance of the gaze mentioned by the Green-robed Ghost earlier, and the Fate-Playing Ghost's prophecy.

The result of the prophecy was not problematic; however, the Fate-Playing Ghost did not fall into slumber as the Green-robed Ghost claimed. Instead, it once again used its special ability to transfer the cost of the prophecy to others, using the guise of slumber to carry out its own plans.

As for the reason for its plans, it was naturally because the Fate-Playing Ghost neither wanted the world to be destroyed nor wanted Xu Yan's arrival to change this world. Thus, the previous conversation between Xu Yan and the Green-robed Ghost came to be.